• Help my friend go to college by just pressing one button!
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My friend is currently a senior and is graduating next week. She was accepted to Cornell University and deserves every right to go; my friend has studied nonstop for four years to earn her place at this school. Problem is, however, her financial background is weak, and every little bit helps in going towards her total scholarship earnings. So here's where you come in, Facepunch. Go to [URL="http://blog.scholarshippoints.com/scholarship-contests/the-one-teacher-that-could-grace-myung/"]this link here[/URL] and press the little green checkmark to vote for her essay. Admittedly, after some personal review and trying a different perspective, it's not the best essay in the world. And if you feel so inclined, you may even take a look at other essays and vote for theirs. But this help would be greatly appreciated. [IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/haklp.png[/IMG] She'll need about 600 votes to win, but I'm positive Facepunch's support will help get her there.
Sure why not! Always willing to help someone on Facepunch.
fine but i better get paid
Voted for that bitch <3
Voted :D
Voted. I'm glad I could help out and good luck to your friend.
done! :) best of luck to your friend
Well it actually took me three clicks. One to click this thread, one to click the link, and a final one to click the tick. But seriously, talking to a friend on Steam now who's a non-facepuncher (As in he doesn't come to this site, i'm pretty sure he might have punched someone in the face at one point in his life. Just to clear that up.) so i'll send him this link and I can feel helpful for getting two votes.
Just as a bonus, can I get tits or is that out of the question. :quagmire:
Voted and commented to balance the comment count with the votes a little. College/uni is great and if she's as dedicated as you say then she totally deserves it.
[QUOTE=RoflKawpter;36059082]Just as a bonus, can I get tits or is that out of the question. :quagmire:[/QUOTE] Here you go~ [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g__PSej5uFw/TmI2SsDy6PI/AAAAAAAAC9I/9gUB232rHFM/s1600/two+great+tits.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=aznz888;36059654]Here you go~ [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g__PSej5uFw/TmI2SsDy6PI/AAAAAAAAC9I/9gUB232rHFM/s1600/two+great+tits.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Whoa, that's a nice pair.
Good luck!
Voted. Good luck!
voted, best of luck :smile:
Nearly 400, hopefully more people notice this and vote! Good Luck!
Aren't college essays supposed to be around 5 pages long?
Voted, but IIRC Cornell (and basically all Ivy Leagues) give absurdly good financial aid. If you're accepted, they'll very nearly pay [I]you[/I] to go.
OP is doing this to get pussy voted
Actually, this is really not that good an essay. :/
can i take my vote back, this is actually pretty horrid writing.
To be frank, none of these are terribly good essays. Maybe I'm just in harsh-critic mode or something, but they're all so very trite and generic. It's like a "how many cliches can you fit into about 500 words" contest.
[QUOTE=postmanX3;36060802]To be frank, none of these are terribly good essays. Maybe I'm just in harsh-critic mode or something, but they're all so very trite and generic. It's like a "how many cliches can you fit into about 500 words" contest.[/QUOTE] Honestly, it is, but you also have to look at it from the standpoint of how a senior would look at their school issues. Maybe it's not the most developed thing you've ever seen(she's a foreign transfer student), but it's not that bad.
[QUOTE=aznz888;36061048]Honestly, it is, but you also have to look at it from the standpoint of how a senior would look at their school issues. Maybe it's not the most developed thing you've ever seen(she's a foreign transfer student), but it's not that bad.[/QUOTE] Well, I can forgive the simplistic vocabulary if she's a transfer student. Seems a few of these essays are from transfer students, so yeah, I can't really begrudge them for mechanical problems. But frankly it's just a well-tread idea that she presents without any sort of elaboration or insight. Plus, she briefly mentions some teacher she had (presumably the "Teacher That Could") and completely fails to explain the significance of this teacher to the concept she's stating. She relies on one bland metaphor (students as products on an assembly line) and basically repeats herself over and over for the entirety of the passage. There's no great purpose to the essay; there's nothing here that's new or original. The irony is that the essay itself feels like it was put together on an assembly line. (I guess you could argue that that's stylistically purposeful, but something tells me she wasn't thinking that deeply.) Bottom line, if she's been accepted into Cornell, the meager scholarship she'd get from this isn't going to help. Cornell's financial aid will basically cover everything she needs, and this scholarship is better left to someone with more developed ideas and a more acute need for the aid.
Read the first few sentences and immediately thought of this. [video=youtube;zDZFcDGpL4U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=zDZFcDGpL4U[/video] tags aren't working for me... And now I feel bad, I voted without even reading it. hmmm... I don't like it when people come on here and say "FP, vote for this because I deserve it" and people do it because "LOL, COOL, they are from facepunch" Because contests such as this have been won when the person actually hasn't even deserved it. But I don't know whether this person really deserves it compared to the other entries... point is, it would be a terrible thing if this person won with a mediocre essay just because a bunch of people from the internet spoofed the votes when there may be a more deserving candidate out there. Tell her to go to CC then maybe try Cornell. If she's that good of a student, she should be getting scholarships all over the place. I didn't get 11,000 dollars in scholarships with the help of others. I did it based on my own skills in high school (Which I never met to my full potential until Junior Year.)
Changed a bit in the original post to reflect my current perspective of the situation. Maybe this'll sound nicer to you guys.
Voted. All I read was the last sentence, and it was kay.
[QUOTE=aznz888;36061226]I don't understand why you seem like you're trying your hardest to criticize and debunk someone in need simply because she gets help from some friends in getting money for a scholarship, despite her essay not being top-notch. Maybe this is the part of the internet where, simply put, "haters gonna hate". Or maybe I'm just looking at this all wrong because of a friend bias. Nonetheless, it still doesn't hurt to help. [editline]23rd May 2012[/editline] Not everyone is the same; I personally received 46K for my own academic proficiency and I didn't need the help of others, either. But maybe some people do, and it rarely hurts them to have connections.[/QUOTE] The thing is, she's not in need. Ivy Leagues are absurdly good about financial aid. Absurdly. They have more money than they really know what to do with. This scholarship is worth, what, $1000 at most? Tuition for a single year at Cornell is something around $40000. Leave this scholarship to someone who might benefit proportionally more from it, and who has the talent to actually win an essay contest. If she won this purely because a bunch of forumites voted for her based on your commendation, that's doing everyone involved a disservice. If she's been accepted, she's set. It's not purely scholarship and grant aid, but Cornell basically avoids giving loans out at all. If your family is below a certain income threshold, they end up covering essentially the entire tuition.
[QUOTE=postmanX3;36061303]The thing is, she's not in need. Ivy Leagues are absurdly good about financial aid. Absurdly. They have more money than they really know what to do with. This scholarship is worth, what, $1000 at most? Tuition for a single year at Cornell is something around $40000. Leave this scholarship to someone who might benefit proportionally more from it, and who has the talent to actually win an essay contest. If she won this purely because a bunch of forumites voted for her based on your commendation, that's doing everyone involved a disservice. If she's been accepted, she's set. It's not purely scholarship and grant aid, but Cornell basically avoids giving loans out at all. If your family is below a certain income threshold, they end up covering essentially the entire tuition.[/QUOTE] Then maybe I've been deceived and fell easily for an attention ruse, but I don't think you're in any proper place to be making those judgements without knowing the whole of the situation. Admittedly, I don't either, but I'm not so sure I can believe all of those claims without solid proof. And who's to say this might just happen to be an accidental exception in the huge ocean of standard admittances? $1000 may not be much of a giant boost, but it doesn't hurt. Besides, the votes have already been cast. Unless you're going to purposely crusade to try and convince everyone on Facepunch to reconsider before they vote, I don't see why you're continuing this argument in this thread.
i actually liked the essay
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